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The first republic
Alexandre Dumas (1802–1870), 1894
Named on the page for Battle of the Pyramids.
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21 July 1798
Battle of the Pyramids
THE EIGHTH CRUSADE.
The 21st he crushed the Mameluks at the Pyramids.
VOL. II. — 22
Great as the distance had been between the victor in Italy and tlie man of the 13th Vendémiaire, greater still was that between the conqueror of the Pyramids and the victor in Italy. Proclaimed in Europe as the greatest of contemporaneous generals, he strove, on the shores where Alexander, Hannibal, and Caesar fought, to equal if not to surpass those captains of antiquity; and he does surpass them, because what they only dreamed of doing, he attempts to do.
ABOUKIR. 355
Bonaparte received this news at the Pyramids. He in- stantly started for Ramanieh, where he arrived on the 19th of July.
DEPARTURE.
During the year this Eighth Crusade (the Ninth unless we count Saint Louis's two attempts as one) had lasted Bonaparte had done all that a human being could do. He had seized Alexandria, conquered the Mameluks at Che- breïss and at the Pyramids, taken Cairo, achieved the conquest of the Delta and that of Upper Egypt, had taken Gaza and Jaffa, and destroyed the Turkish army of Achmet the Djezzar on the plain of Mount ïabor ; and lastly, he had now annihilated a second Turkish army at Aboukir. The three colors floated triumphantly on the Nile and on the Jordan.
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